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Article: Patent No. 7,556,071 Issued on July 7, Assigned to Andritz Oy for Debark Mechanism (Finnish Inventor)
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- July 14, 2009
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- Pekka Kokko, Hollola, Finland, has developed a debarking mechanism. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. 7,556,071 on July 7.
The patent has been assigned to Andritz Oy, Helsinki, Finland.
According to the abstract released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A debarking mechanism including a number of rotatable debarking shafts extending parallel to an advancing direction of the trees to be fed therethrough, which are provided with a number of teeth extending beyond the circumferential surface of the shaft and the debarking shafts being adapted to each other in such a way that the ...